The infamous Wadala Government Railway Police (GRP) has once again landed in trouble for extorting money from a 27-year-old boy and trying to forge documents to cover-up their act. Six police officers have been booked for taking a fine of '300 from the youth, who was travelling in a local train coach for handicapped people, but not making an entry of it in the CCTNS system (an online database of cops for registering information of offences and accused). They had also not issued him a receipt.

Wrong coach
On January 7, the culprits were on patrol duty at the Wadala railway station when around 11.30 am they caught nine passengers travelling in a wrong coach of a CST-bound train. All of them were taken to the police station. "Nine passengers were fined '1,200, but 27-year-old Abbas Ali Khan said he didn't have money," said an officer of Wadala GRP. "Abbas was travelling from Govandi to Reach Road when he was caught at the station. When he told the cops on duty that he was new to the city and was not aware that there were separate compartments for handicapped people, they took him to the police station. My son got scared and started crying. He gave them '300 that he had in his pocket and called me up," said Subrato Ali Khan, Abbas's father.